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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Thanks for proving our point, he should be getting the type of ice time he got scoring .9 PPG the last 4 years.
Is that unreasonable?
He needed to come here and start at 13-14 minutes a night to earn his ice time? Battling it out with the likes of Milan Lucic.
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People tend to make this drastic comparison that he gets similar minutes to Lucic which isn't true. Lucic is averaging just over 11 minutes which is is the lowest of his career (and we can all agree that's a good thing). I would also argue like most people that it is still too high and he should probably be scratched (but that's another debate).
Huberdeau on average gets almost 6 minutes more than the guy everyone hates. Sure there is games when he's been around 15 but the averages don't lie. What exactly is that extra 2 minutes going to do for Huberdeau? If he doesn't produce in 17 minutes are we betting that his numbers would be drastically different if he got 19 a night.
As Classic_Sniper said, he's probably exactly where he needs to be.